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1984 3

The book is 1984 by George Orwell. It is a shocking and scary view of the future from a writer in the 1940's.This book tells of a society which is ruled by fear and ignorance, where "Big Brother" is the government is always watching you, and ruling you subconscioulsy.Orwell wrote this as a warning against the comon persons bvecoming complacent and overly tusting in their leaders. What I learned from this book, is that what happens in this fictional novel, can easily happen to our present day community.Governments lie to us today, so why couldn't they attemp to alter the past like "Big Brother" government did so skillfully and convincingly in 1984. I also came to the understanding the ...

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overly trusting in the government.THey have no desire to improve themseves, thus they stay firmly under the first of big brother. In 1984 Winston Smith was the main character. He was a rebel who secretly was against the big brother and its dictatorial ways.His mistake was trusting his dangerous views to other people, thus causing his drawn out torture and eventual murder.The main character Winston did not use science to solve his problems in fact the modern science and technology of the day in 1984 was his problem. A "telescreen" was mandatory in all homes, this was a two way t.v/monitor that allowed the government to watch every waking and sleeping moment of a person's life. The telescreen doed out mindless brain washing drivel that made ther person almost subconsciouly believe the "party line".Even more dangerous was the telescreen forced you to reamin the "good soldier" at all times, and if one slipped up, no matter how small at any given time, they were sure to be caught, ...

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Added: 6/9/2006 02:02:34 AM
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